Australia Soccor to the World cup!
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- Angelsheart
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Australia Soccor to the World cup!
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- Melodionxxx
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That's highly unlikely Melo. Don't think anyone has much more than a passing interest in it. Only time soccer gets a mention is when they win a game against someone. Its a very poor 4th place after football ie. Rugby League and Rugby Union and Australian Rules. Sure, a few primary school kids play it but then they graduate to one of the other 3 games.
Miruwin
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- Angelsheart
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- Angelsheart
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This isnt always the case Mir, I love soccer, and have no interest in any other form football, it is a personal preference.Miruwin wrote:That's highly unlikely Melo. Don't think anyone has much more than a passing interest in it. Only time soccer gets a mention is when they win a game against someone. Its a very poor 4th place after football ie. Rugby League and Rugby Union and Australian Rules. Sure, a few primary school kids play it but then they graduate to one of the other 3 games.
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Soccer is where it deserves to be, a distant 4th amongst the sport going public. It will never change while the sport condones and infact promotes primadonas and drama queens. I do not watch sport to see some pansy fall the ground and clutch his head when he got a bump in the arm.
Coincidentally I have finally stopped watching Australian rules for exactly the same reason. My exact phrase to my disbelieving friends was "It's becoming like soccer"
Coincidentally I have finally stopped watching Australian rules for exactly the same reason. My exact phrase to my disbelieving friends was "It's becoming like soccer"
As a field hockey player, I used to watch a bit of English soccer way back. My husband was from Liverpool UK and he was a supporter of that team, whereas his brother was an Everton supporter. I was watching it mainly because it had very similar rules to field hockey and similar positional play. At this time I was playing at rep level and due to the lack of any hockey matches being televised, I found soccer to be a reasonable substitute. I totally lost interest in it when all I saw on TV during televised matches was hooliganism, overacting and really second rate abilities compared to my chosen sport.
Over a couple of decades, and having watched a few televised games, I have found the skill level to have dropped even further and the overacting from 90% of the player to be worthy of an academy award.
Out of curiosity, I emailled NSW Soccer to see what sort of a playr base they had. See below:
AGE - Number of Registered Players
6 - 16,268
7 - 14,073
8 - 13,686
9 - 12,584
10 - 12,626
11 - 10,623
12 - 11,743
13 - 8,467
14 - 10,268
15 - 6,684
16 - 8,448
17 - 2,415
18 - 4,881
19 - 1,429
20/21 - 2,481
over 22 47,619
Overall, age group participation has increased only slightly with by far the biggest increase being in the 18 and 19 years age group and all other age groups declining. It is interesting to note that by far the highest percentage of players are in the primary school age and drop away to almost nothing once the participants leave school. Therefore, primary school age kids make up 50% of the player base, high school age make up 24% and young adults 1%, all others up to and including the over 35 age group 25%. Bear in mind that this is combined male/female player base.
As an interesting comparison Soccer in NSW has 184,295 players, Netball, which is a female only sport (yes I know there are a couple of male teams but they do not play genuine competition games) had 106,170 and the distribution base is minimal in primary school with a peak number in the mid to late teens and 20's.
Now, another thing. I believe soccer would be more popular in NSW than any other state so therefore I don't believe that Australia wide the figures would be as comparatively high. I am still awaiting a response from Soccer Australia as a comparison.
Over a couple of decades, and having watched a few televised games, I have found the skill level to have dropped even further and the overacting from 90% of the player to be worthy of an academy award.
Out of curiosity, I emailled NSW Soccer to see what sort of a playr base they had. See below:
AGE - Number of Registered Players
6 - 16,268
7 - 14,073
8 - 13,686
9 - 12,584
10 - 12,626
11 - 10,623
12 - 11,743
13 - 8,467
14 - 10,268
15 - 6,684
16 - 8,448
17 - 2,415
18 - 4,881
19 - 1,429
20/21 - 2,481
over 22 47,619
Overall, age group participation has increased only slightly with by far the biggest increase being in the 18 and 19 years age group and all other age groups declining. It is interesting to note that by far the highest percentage of players are in the primary school age and drop away to almost nothing once the participants leave school. Therefore, primary school age kids make up 50% of the player base, high school age make up 24% and young adults 1%, all others up to and including the over 35 age group 25%. Bear in mind that this is combined male/female player base.
As an interesting comparison Soccer in NSW has 184,295 players, Netball, which is a female only sport (yes I know there are a couple of male teams but they do not play genuine competition games) had 106,170 and the distribution base is minimal in primary school with a peak number in the mid to late teens and 20's.
Now, another thing. I believe soccer would be more popular in NSW than any other state so therefore I don't believe that Australia wide the figures would be as comparatively high. I am still awaiting a response from Soccer Australia as a comparison.
Miruwin
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